CHOOSE YE THIS DAY
Joshua 24:15 KJV
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
If Adam in his perfect perfection did not choose God over Eve, ate the fobiden fruit and plunged all of mankind into rebellion against God then how can an imperfect man choose God.
Isaiah 64:7,9 KJV
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
And the very Lord Jesus Christ said in....
John 15:16 KJV
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
You see, salvation is a gift, given by the will of God not commanded by the whims of man.
Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Man will always choose that which sounds, looks or feels right in their own eyes and disreguard that what God declares pleases Himself.
Salvation is not your decision to choose God, but God's good pleasure to choose you.
And if chosen you will serve Him and not He you.
Elder Bill Silva